Motion and Visual Designer, YouTube

Google Inc.; Zürich; Vor Ort; CHF 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Google Inc. is seeking a Share Motion and Visual Designer for YouTube. You will define the look and feel of Google products through motion design, guiding animation across devices and platforms.

You will collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to create fluid, natural, and informative experiences, translating motion into tokens and component libraries while maintaining a strong UX brand.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in design or related field.
• 4 years of motion design experience in product/UX design or UX/UI animation.
• Experience with motion related to physics, patterns, and visual design elements.
• Experience exporting with Lottie/Bodymovin and handling JSON for mobile/web.
• Document motion values into design tokens and component libraries.
• Include a portfolio or working link in your resume.

Aufgaben

• Define and implement the look and feel of Google products through motion design.
• Provide patterns and guidance on animation for various devices and platforms.
• Create high quality designs and drive projects from concept to implementation.

Kenntnisse

Motion design

UX design

Animation

Lottie/Bodymovin

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree in Design/HCI/CS

Tools

Lottie

Bodymovin

Cinema 4D

Blender

ProtoPie

Rive

Framer

Shaders/Code

Jobbeschreibung

Share Motion and Visual Designer, YouTube

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 4 years of motion design experience in product design, UX design, or UX/UI animation.
  
• Experience in motion design related to physics, patterns, and visual design elements.
• Experience with Lottie or Bodymovin export workflows, JSON data structures, and the rendering limits of mobile and web frameworks (CSS/SVG/Canvas).
• Experience documenting motion values (e.g., easing, duration, choreography) into design tokens and component libraries.
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 2 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.
  
• 1 year of experience leading design projects.
  
• Experience designing motion for conversational AI, generative AI, or agentic workflows (shimmers, stateful transitions, contextual prompts).
• Proficiency with modern prototyping tools (Claude code, ProtoPie, Rive, Framer, or basic code/shaders).
• Working familiarity with 3D tools (Cinema 4D, Blender) for generating dimensional assets and ambient lighting effects.
  

About the job

At Google, we follow a simple but vital premise: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Google’s Motion Designers collaborate with cross-functional partners to create desirable and relevant product experiences that consistently elevate the Google brand. They help people make sense of their world by choreographing experiences that feel fluid, natural, and informative.
Google User Experience (UX) is made up of multi-disciplinary teams of UX Designers, Researchers, Writers, Content Strategists, Program Managers, and Engineers: we care deeply about the people who use our products. The UX team plays an integral part in gathering insights about the attitudes, emotions, and behaviors of people who use our products to inspire and inform design. We collaborate closely with each other and with engineering and product management to create industry-leading products that deliver value for the people who use them, and for Google’s businesses.
As a Motion Designer, you’ll apply your passion for animation to simplify complex interactions and solve challenging design problems. You’ll help define and implement Google’s motion design language and you’ll think critically about how motion reinforces Google’s UX brand, enhances interactivity, and delights our users.

User experience is at the forefront of how we create intuitive, innovative, and beautiful products that people love. We strive to learn and understand our users’ needs, behaviors, and emotions to gather insights that inform product strategy and design. Our UX teams include designers, researchers, content strategists, and engineers who are passionate about quality, usability, and simplicity. We work on collaborative teams to solve complex challenges and craft experiences that highlight our products’ unique capabilities and personalities. Our work touches billions while exemplifying a key principle that is core to Google’s philosophy: "Focus on the user and all else will follow."

Responsibilities

• Define and implement the look and feel of Google products through motion design.
  
• Provide patterns, best practices and guidance on animation and transitions for different devices (such as TV, tablets, wearables, mobile, etc.) and platforms (such as web, Android, iOS, etc.).
  
• Create high quality design proposals and drive projects from concept to iterations and implementation.
  

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